A Soundseeing tour is an audio tour that uses the ambient sounds and descriptions given by a tour guide to give the listener an accurate depiction of the surroundings. These types of recordings are usually made at tourist points of interest and are commonly distributed through podcasting, MP3 players, and wireless handheld devices. A Tour Guide is an occupation or vocation of someone who conducts tours usually within the tourism industry. ... Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. ...

Soundseeing tour websites:

http://AudioConexus.com - An emerging tourism trend, this company provides GPS triggered audio tours for cruises, walking tours and mass transit sightseeing in multiple languages simultaneously using wireless hands-free devices.

http://SoundseeingPodcasts.com - This podcast is here to aggregate the best of soundseeing podcasts. There are so many great ones and their need to be a central place for finding these gems. Anyone can submit his or her podcast for addition to the feed.

http://SoundTransit.nl - SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography.

http://iAudioguide.com - iAudioguide offers free 60-minute city audio walks with some sounds of the cities and professional voice, currently for London, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna and Brussels in English, French, Italian and German.

http://iGuides.biz - iGuides is a walking tour of Singapore's colonial heart using dramatic characters and additional sound effects to recreate the storyline.

http://www.audiosnacks.com - Digital Catalog of Virtual Audio Tours. Search.Sample.Buy. You can even post your own tours with us.

http://www.audiocitytours.com - AudioCityTours offers a hour and a half audio tours for Amsterdam, London, and Salzburg. The edge is to make enjoyable and not too historic centric.

http://www.talkofthetown.se - Talk of the town is an audio guide in Stockholm for mobile phones. Covering 43 of the most interesting sights in six different languages. It is offered as a prepaid service for foreign tourists. A deal with a local operator makes it possible to offer the service without tourists having to pay the normally high international roaming cost.